David L. Eng, Shinhee Han

Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation

On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

David L. Eng and Shinhee Han draw on psychoanalytic case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore how first- and second-generation Asian American young adults deal with difficulties such as depression, suicide, and coming out within the larger social context of race, immigration, and sexuality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 348g
• ISBN-13: 9781478001607
• ISBN-10: 1478001607
• Artikelnr.: 51988616

Autorenporträt

David L. Eng is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Shinhee Han is a psychotherapist at The New School and in private practice in New York City.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  vii
Introduction: The History of the (Racial) Subject and the Subject of
(Racial) History  1
Part I: Racial Melancholia
1. Racial Melancholia: Model Minorities, Depression, and Suicide  33
2. Desegregating Love: Transnational Adoption, Racial Reparation, and
Racial Transnational Objects  66
Part II. Racial Dissociation
3. Racial Dissociation: Parachute Children and Psychic Nowhere  101
4. (Gay) Panic Attack: Coming Out in a Colorblind Age  141
Epilogue  174
Notes  181
Bibliography  203
Index  213